stop cursing

I’m starting this task because I plan to become a high school teacher and somehow I don’t think it will work out very well with employers if I’m cursing all the time….

I’m starting out by mentally noting when I swear. The problem is that I do it without thinking and I do it casually. It doesn’t seem to stem from anger or anything of the sort; these are simply words of my normal vocabulary and my brain perceives no stigma for them. So, for right now I’m just going to work on noticing when I’m doing it.

I’m still doing fairly well with this with only one slip-up in the past three days. For the most part, the curse words aren’t usually even coming into my mind as I try to keep my cool and come up with other (tamer) phrases to express my feelings.

I’m getting much better at not swearing. I’ve come up with some substitutes for things I don’t want to say anymore. Sometimes I just stop myself midsentence before I swear and that seems to work, too. I’ll need to keep up on this so I don’t revert back to old habits.

I have slipped up once today but that’s still a big improvement. I’ll keep on working on it.

I started working on this goal yesterday and have begun tapering off of swearing by trying to catch myself and stop myself before those words come flying out of my mouth. I figure there are basically two areas that I need to focus on:

1. Find “clean”, socially acceptable substitutes for the curse words I want to stop using.

2. Learn not to let people/situations get me so upset.

For starters, instead of saying that something hurts like h*, I will say it hurts like nobody’s business. I’m still working on a clean substitute for WTF??? but that will take a little more time. I want to use something that expresses the same incredulous feeling but that does not obviously sound like a substitute for that phrase. I really want to stop saying that because it is such an ugly thing to say.

I didn’t curse/swear when I was growing up. I tried it for a few days when I was 19 and decided that it wasn’t adding anything useful to my communication and promptly quit. I was careful not to swear when my sons were growing up so as not to be a bad role model in that respect.

Some crappy things have happened in my life in the meantime and even though I love my job, there are some people at work and elsewhere who can really pluck my last nerve. So, now I find myself swearing like a sailor at times. (Sorry sailors, but I was a sailor at one time and know this from experience.) Anyway, I don’t like at all that I swear and really would prefer to once again be someone who doesn’t swear. Now I need to make that happen.

It almost slipped yesterday at various times in a heated discussion with someone. As I spoke to prayed that no curse word would part my lips. One or two slipped out, but I maintained my cool for the most part. I am very proud of myself

Not a curse word today. Well not yet anyway !!! Being positive

When finding just the right words don’t seem to enter my brain that will express how frustrated, or angry or miserable I might be at the time. Someone is just in your face or getting under your skin. I think in order for me to reach this goal I must practice patience

I have been cussing like a sailor since I was in elementary school. I swear it seems without let up. It’s just really bad when someone makes me mad. I really try but it’s hard because by the time I realize I’m going off, I’m already 6 cuss words deep! I even tried the whole money per cuss word…sometimes I just went ahead & put money in the cup for the stuff I knew I was bout to say. This is going to be hard but I THINK I can get thru this…it just may take a lil while.